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This article about discussion on a certain Chinese IME and is not translated in to English yet (and probably never), please refer to the Chinese version instead.

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我知道許多輸入法的運作原理，但能流利使用的並不多，嘸蝦米是其中之一（但目前已非本人主力）。在本人深入的研究之下，發現了這款輸入法（至少從其官方材料為出發點）的一些不完備之處。

字根與鍵位

• 有許多實際上會用到的字根，在官方字根表中未有列出。有些民間資料會補回這部份字根。
• 「戶」¹、「酉」、「臼」、「卜」等字官方文件聲稱其鍵位乃從發音而來，但我並未找到其所依據的發音為何。不過其他的音碼其實也沒有很明確的取碼標準就是了。
• 「喪」字都有「捨大根而不用」的嫌疑（「土口口𧘇」>「十口口𧘇」？），且不一定有符合大根原則的「容錯碼」。至於「囧」不取「四」而取作「囗儿ㄇ」或「囗八ㄇ」，我們可以定義「四」內部不可容物來解釋。

拆字

• 「主」字，我從來沒有搞懂為什麼它拆的是「丶王」而不是「亠土」。（五筆同樣也拆作「丶王」，倉頡和行列就都是拆作「亠土」。嘸蝦米和五筆都有齊「丶亠土王」四個字根，為何不是遵守大字根先取的原則？）
• 嘸蝦米有「亼」字根，但「余舍」卻不用「亼」這個較大的字根而是拆作「人」。「余」有一個將首碼取作「亼」的容錯碼，「舍」則不設將首碼取作「亼」的容錯碼。更甚的是，官方並未有列出一個「余減掉人」的字根，而是用「禾」權充，而且補碼要取作捺而非點（不然的話會變成次選的容錯碼）。以上現象全部都可以類推到包含這些部件的字上。

兩碼字

• 「輿」有一個兩碼打法「CB」。此字一般習慣先寫「𦥑（臼）」再寫「車」，拆作「GCEB」，官方碼表亦將「GCEB」列為標準拆法，而「CGEB」為容錯碼。其兩碼打法「CB」列作「首尾碼」不妥。
• 「辭」字完整拆碼為「ETNL」，亦不存在「辭」字的簡速字根，官方將兩碼打法「EJ」列作首尾碼疑有誤。
• 「瓜」字最後一筆似應為捺而非點，官方碼表將兩碼打法「GA」列作標準取碼不妥。（但是「GN」又跟「夾」重碼了，所以「GA」也許可以作為硬性編碼留着。）
• • 其他帶有「瓜」部件的字如「孤狐」都有類似問題，補碼作 N 的容錯碼被放到了次選位置。
• 「干」字按標準取碼，只能拆作「GJ」，沒有 V（附加 V 不是標準取碼，只應算作附加規則），官方將兩碼打法「GV」列作（標準取碼的）首尾碼不妥。
• 「艦」字的兩碼打法「GF」，官方列作「發音＋尾碼」，但其發音不脗合。
• 「或」字尾筆應為右上角的點，非橫，官方列作簡速字根的規則取碼不妥。「武」字也有類似的問題，取作 WE 而不是 WA。以上字符均不設末筆作點的「容錯碼」。
• • 實際上所有帶有「弋」或「戈」部件的字都是如此。官方有提到這樣的一條規則：「凡是帶有『弋』或『戈』部件的字（包括這兩個字本身），一律先取右上角的點，然後取『𫠠』或『𭠍』，最後取位於這個部件左下方的部份。」但考慮到補碼取用的模糊性，也許也應該加上這樣的一條附加規則：「凡是帶有『弋』或『戈』部件的字（包括這兩個字本身）要取補碼時，一律先考慮位於左下方的部件，然後才考慮從『𫠠』或『𭠍』取補碼」。這麼一來所有帶「弋」或「戈」的字就都能完整地解釋了。
• 有四個字，存在兩種兩碼字的打法：力 DX DY、門 MI MY、牙 XP YP、乙 ZL ZZ。其官方文檔又說，同一個字佔用兩個兩碼碼位（加 V 的不算）是浪費編碼空間，並以此為據將部份早期版本的兩碼字改掉（儘管更改兩碼字的「常用度」標準可能有主觀之嫌），但又不知為何留了四個「浪費編碼空間」的兩碼字下來。

其他

• 部份字符繁簡體模式分配欠妥。我有輸入粵語字的需求，例如「瞓」（睡覺的意思）、「劏」等字，明明字形上是繁體，嘸蝦米卻規定這個字符必須要切換至簡體模式才能打出。

🚨 Caution

This article about discussion on the Chinese language itself and is not translated in to English yet (and probably never), please refer to the Chinese version instead.

💡 BlogBlog Club!

This is my submission article for “BlogBlog Club Party - July 2026”. This month’s topic is “有趣的小知識或冷門概念”, hosted by Shuai. If you have your own blog, feel free to join us together!

以下談談幾個奇怪的漢語方言¹現象。

ㄣㄥ（en in & eng ing）不分

Wiwi 在他的文章「三個怪癖」 中提到他說話時有ㄣㄥ不分的現象。據說這是台灣人的普遍現象²，而且其實不只台灣是這樣，就連大陸某些地方（主要在南方）的人都存在。為了解決打字方面的困擾，大陸的好些輸入法甚至有「模糊音」的設計，無論輸入哪一種（用戶覺得不能分的）組合都能出字。

耐人尋味的是，閩南語有個類似ㄧㄥ的韻母（白話字 eng，臺羅 ing），傳統上應該要唸作 [i̯əŋ]，跟ㄧㄣ有明顯不同。在北方漢語中，ㄧㄥ韻母往往被唸成 [i̯əŋ] 甚至 [i̯ə̃]，而ㄧㄣ就是 [in]。反倒是一些別的南方漢語的確存在上述ㄣㄥ不分的特徵。

閩南語真的是保留入聲的語言嗎？

好些閩南沙文主義狂熱份子自詡閩南語是「保留入聲」的古漢語。但據我一個粵語母語者的個人觀察，台灣的閩南語使用者實際上普遍存在入聲脫落的現象，許多字典中標明是入聲的字已經被發音得與開韻尾無異，除非下一個字以零聲母開頭形成聯誦。不過少數字正腔圓的人倒是真的有好好把入聲韻尾給唸出來。語言隨着時間推移而出現自然變化是一件很正常的事情，但是不應該將某些正在變化（且瀕臨消失）的特徵誇大作某語言存古的證據。

想節能，輪胎能

很多年前有一個廣告當中有句對白「想節能，輪胎能」，因為代言人古天樂普通話太差而被空耳成奇奇怪怪的東西。不過耐人尋味的是，普通話和標準粵語中，「輪」跟「能」都是不同音的，反倒是一些鄉下地方的粵語方言無法區分。古天樂在說粵語的時候應該也是能分的~~（要不然早就被聽出口音來了）~~。順帶一提，「出」和「七」的歸併與上述的歸併其實是平行的，於是「出街瞓」也就變成了「七街瞓」。

粵語的平翹音

不知道有沒有人深入探究過這個疑問。話說 100 年前的廣州話是有分平翹音的（儘管所謂的翹舌音，捲舌幅度遠少於北方漢語，若干字歸類與現代標準漢語³不同），而現在的標準粵語則不再區分。許多文獻寫「現在統統讀成平舌」，我是很懷疑的。根據我自己的個人語感、以及對身邊人發音的觀察，大多數香港人（沒注意大陸的）的粵語發音當中實際上是有兩套塞擦音的，但不再構成音位對立，形成同位異音（allophone，少數人是自由變體 free variation），在「圓唇元音」（粵拼 o, oe, eo, u, yu）前讀作 [tʃ tʃʰ ʃ]，而在「非圓唇元音」（粵拼 aa, a, e, i）前讀作 [ts tsʰ s]。⁴假如不遵守上述法則，雖然不會影響理解，但可能會被認為口音與一般香港人有異。

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💡 Let’s brainstorm!

Do any of you readers have suggestions for additions? Feel free to submit them via email or private messages!

1. Cutting in line
2. Urinating or defecating in public
   • This is actually an extremely ancient method of marking territory, and similar behaviors have been found in different species, with a history far exceeding five thousand years. See also “The entire world belongs to China”.
3. Watching TikTok/RedNote loudly in public
4. • The louder the better to get attention and appreciate the wonders of Chinese culture!
5. Forcing others to speak Mandarin in a foreign country
   • Chinese people like to force others to speak Mandarin when they are in a foreign country, even if the other person does not look Chinese at all.
   • When you make games or write comics, if you don’t release Chinese translations, you’re not taking Chinese players into consideration.
6. Randomly being ruhua’ed
   • As the old saying goes: There are three things everyone will inevitably experience in life: birth, death, and ruhua.
7. Promotion of nucleic acid tests
8. The entire world belongs to China
   • China cannot lose an inch of its territory!

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💡 BlogBlog Club!

This is my submission article for “BlogBlog Club Party - March 2026”. This month’s topic is “Perfect Days”, hosted by Alex Hsu. If you have your own blog, feel free to join us together!

Ideal itinerary

1. I have mentioned before in another blog post that my biological clock is in an extremely delicate state , which makes it extremely difficult for me to seek “normal” (socially conventional) jobs. I myself have tried to forcefully stick myself to the 10-6 work pattern for several months, but my sleep condition is still very erratic and not always in that suitable-for-work state. But I don’t like going out too late at night (it doesn’t feel too safe). Looks like I can only look for some freelancer jobs? However, given the current economic environment in Hong Kong, jobs of this property are no longer easy to find, and it is difficult to make a living with such a job for a long time (this has been confirmed by a friend who have long used freelance jobs as their main source of income). Of course it would be best if I could turn my biological clock back to normal, but what should I do? Do I have to intervene it by medical means?
2. I have never been a person who like exercise, I can even say that I hate exercise a bit. Maybe it’s because that my physical condition is too poor. It is said that such an idea goes against social norms and I don’t know if it needs to be corrected. Of course it would be best if other people in society are willing to accept my ideas.

Ideal social relationships

My social relationships have always been a mess. Maybe I should find some group activities to enrich myself. But given that I hate exercise, the types of activities I can find are relatively limited. Moreover, my trust in strangers is quite low, I am afraid of encountering scammers when I go out to find suitable group activities by myself, so I will basically only take the initiative to participate such activities through introductions from my only existing personal network. Also I can’t burn too much money until I can find a stable job.

But I also don’t like to participate in group activities with too many people, otherwise I can easily become a light bulb. Being with two or three people is the most comfortable state for me.

An ideal social system

1. I people friendly: Although I have always longed to leave Hong Kong and live abroad, due to economic factors, it is not feasible in the foreseeable future. But I don’t know why I always feel that the way western society operates is not very I people friendly. Living in western countries means that there are more situations that require me to communicate with others face to face, and this is exactly what I am not very good at. I don’t know of any place suitable for me to venture into.
2. Ideal working environment: I am the kind of person who is not very adaptable to a lifestyle where one day only consists of going to work, getting off work, and resting, and the life is occupied by a lot of boring work, and not paying much attention to work-life balance, so I may not be able to cope with a full-time job? In addition, my preferred working style is that if I see something whose current implementation is suboptimal, and I can come up with some constructive suggestions, I would expect that I can actively express my opinion on it, even if it is something outside the scope of my work.
3. Ideal work efficiency: In an ideal society, all services should have good and complete customer service. Unfortunately, I don’t have much patience, so I easily fall into the state of “discipline yourself with leniency and treat others with severity”. I have had to contact customer service several times, but the customer service was very inefficient and unable to handle the problem. In the end, not only was the problem not handled well, it also made me feel very bad.

Ideal = Unrealistic?

Halfway through writing, I noticed that Noa and Wiwi mentioned that in the Ministry of Education Mandarin Chinese dictionary, the opposite word for “ideal” is “realistic”. As the saying goes, “Ideals are full, reality is skinny”. Whatever you gain, you must lose. It seems that maybe my ideal is too difficult to become real.

Conclusion

Due to the rush of work, the content of the article is not quite well organized. I may update this article in the same place in the future.

I actually have some more radical ideas about an ideal world and an ideal social system, but I won’t talk about them publicly here, lest this blog won’t exist anymore one day.

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Some people believe that Chinese calligraphy (hereinafter referred to as calligraphy) should be included in the compulsory education system, just like in Japan. Currently in Hong Kong, the Education Bureau has not made any regulations regarding calligraphy education, and most schools treat it as an extracurricular activity rather than part of the unified curriculum. Does this situation seem to be similar in other parts of Greater China?

My personal opinion

It’s true that fewer and fewer people are using pens these days. Many modern people, when asked to pick up a pen, easily forget how to write characters or have illegible handwriting. However, modern people rarely receive systematic guidance on “proper penmanship” in compulsory education, so many are forced to just get by. Consider the ancient imperial examination system: the standards for “proper handwriting” were extremely high (although literacy rates were low then), and illegible handwriting was immediately considered a disqualification. However, from another perspective, modern people really rarely need to use a calligraphy brush frequently. After all, writing in an extremely physically demanding and unergonomic way for extended periods can lead to negative impacts to health (perhaps I’m saying this because I ended up failing to learn the correct way to write with a calligraphy brush?).

Therefore, my view is that it’s necessary to strengthen education in pen calligraphy, but not necessarily brush calligraphy.

Personal experience

My experience in the Hong Kong education system was somewhat irrational, but I don’t know if it qualifies as “strange” (because perhaps my situation is actually the norm, just a distorted norm). Although there was no calligraphy lessons in primary school (and I never attended extra calligraphy classes), something a bit strange was that every now and then everyone would be asked to write something and hand it in, and most of the time I just did a perfunctory job. By secondary school, I had basically never touched a brush pen again, only having some experience with Chinese painting in visual art lessons in junior high. However, my calligraphy foundation was so weak that I couldn’t even write my own name properly with a brush (I mean, the kind that’s barely legible).

My parents bought me some shoes from “Hong ×× Ke” in Shenzhen. I tried many shoe sizes but they often didn’t quite fit my feet. They were all narrow on the left and right, but quite spacious on the front and back. I came to the following conclusion: Mainlanders’ feet are different from ours, and they are probably still have the foot-binding practice.

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Old passage

I have a semi-joking essay that I originally published in 2018, the original text of which is as follows:

話說在 1910 年代，有一群人看見人們讀文言文實在太辛苦了，於是便發起了白話文運動，可是直到現在，文言文仍然是中文義務教育（特別是大中華地區）當中的重要一環，仍然有不少人被迫為文言文而苦練、浪費光陰，而這些也不是他們感興趣的東西。社會的資源都被浪費在文言教育上（而且沒有甚麼實質用途，除了應付考試），造成現在的青少年的由於分心在文言而導致語文能力低下。所以由此可見，白話文運動是失敗的。

有人認為，要是沒有人再學習文言文，我們就會與五千年的中國文化和歷史割裂，持這些觀點的人認為，一旦文言文不再列入義務教育，就不會再有人學習文言文。可見我認為，這個世界上或多或少都會有一些對文言有興趣、有天分的人，他們可以替另一群沒有興趣的人去繼承這些歷史。文言文也可以作為選修科目，讓有興趣的人自行研究，而不是去強迫所有人去學習這門艱深的密碼。不是所有人都有這樣的能耐，於是導致他們不僅對文言失去興趣，令他們在各方面的能力或多或少有些影響，他們也有可能因為這樣而得上心理疾病，這樣長遠對社會的發展是很不利的。

既然白話文運動是失敗的，矯正文字的方法無效，何不矯正人們的口語，讓人們說文言文，讓文言作為人們的第一語言，這樣人們自然也能更高效地學好文言，也能符合白話文運動「我手寫我口」的初衷。

強迫所有學生學習自己母語以外的語言對不少人來說頗為辛苦，我認為讓他們專心學好一種語言能提高整體的語文能力，因為學生不用為其他外語（甚至密碼）而分心。想當年，香港曾出現「重英輕中」的社會風氣，可是他們沒有完全摒棄中文（或英文），導致學生們有雙重負擔，學習水平自然會下降。

那麼從現在開始，對下一代的文言教育作好打算吧！我們儘早應該為下一代以文言作第一語言鋪路！

A classical Chinese version translated by a friend:

夫一九一零之際，或見人語文言者誠苦，則發白文之運，然今，文言仍中文義務教區之大者也，是猶以中原為甚，仍有苦習文言，光陰揮霍者甚蕃，而彼亦其無心者也。社稷之資，皆廢文言，且除應試外，實用之無，致今青年由之低語之能。由是，則知白文之運，敗也。

或以若無人習文言，则我輩失五千年華夏文化，絕史矣。執此見者以以為，若文言去義學，則無人習之。而余以為，是世果存趣於文言，質於文言者若干，彼等可代無趣於文言者承此史也。文言亦可為选修之科，請趣之者自研，而非迫人悉習此高深密碼。微人皆有是能，故致其不僅失趣，動於各面若干，更亦或因是而心疾染，長此以往，不利社稷進也。

今者白文之運既敗，正文之法不效，何不正人口語，使人語文言，以之正音，如是，則人自速習文言，亦切白文之運初云「我手寫我口」者耳。

迫悉生習外語，多人苦之。余以為，以學者無需分心於外語，甚至密碼者，使之專於一語之學，可拔其總語之能。觀夫香港舊日，現「重英輕華」之相，然彼等均盡未棄其二者之一，致其雙負，習能自下。

故今者語始於計慮後人之文言！後人以文言為語，我等當早路之！

My current view

Eight years have passed, so has my view changed? The answer is: not significantly.

Unless you intend to study Chinese history and culture, or become a Chinese teacher, classical Chinese is completely useless for daily life “after exam-oriented education.” You only need a basic level of Chinese for everyday communication to get by.

As for what language to teach your children at home in the future, that’s another topic altogether.

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When I take the MBTI test privately, my results consistently fall between INTP and INFP (50-something % of T). However, I don’t know why everyone around me describes me as an INFP.

Since I’m not a typical T or F, some statements that might apply to typical T or F people don’t entirely apply to me. Sometimes I might lean towards F, and sometimes I might lean towards T.

I recently attended a workshop discussing MBTI, where it was mentioned that NF people need to “experience God in suffering”¹ and are very interested in “expanding their business beyond a certain area”, which I’m not very keen on. The workshop also mentioned suitable gifts for different personality types:

• ST: Gifts with practical value, such as cash.
• SF: A gift that shows thoughtfulness and care.
• NF: A “meaningful” gift, which does the job by giving some random trash and then make up a touching story about it.
• NT: Novel and creative gifts.

I’m not very keen on those gifts or NF, and I’d actually prefer gifts for NT or even ST. I even think gifts for NF are a bit ridiculous.

Like Wiwi said, isn’t it quite good to stick in the midpoint between T and F?

By the way, the seating arrangement² in that workshop virtually made that all I-people have to seat closer in the front, it was truly hellish.

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There is a community called BlogBlog Club which is promoting the advantages of RSS recently, claiming that RSS can help us break free from the control of algorithms, and so on. There are many articles in this community introducing the advantages of RSS, so I won’t list them here. But have you ever considered whether RSS is really as perfect as you imagine?

Pushing vs Polling

RSS is a technology that only supports polling and cannot push, which means that RSS readers need to constantly get data from websites that provide RSS. And this problem became serious after the advent of the AI ​​​​era.

Battle of webcrawlers

After the advent of the AI ​​​​era, web crawlers in order to extract data on a large scale for training, began to become unethical, even the ancient gentleman protocol robots.txt simply ignored, indiscriminately crawled public website pages in large numbers, disguised as DDoS, making webmasters all over the world miserable. Faced with this situation, websites have resorted to various countermeasures. Some websites require login to use certain functions, or enable human-machine verification for filtering. These countermeasures are completely contrary to the mechanism of RSS only supporting polling.

Should we hate RSS?

I don’t know either. I will provide RSS in this blog for now, but I do have some improvements in mind:

• Use pushing, don’t update data using lagging polling
• Strengthen security mechanisms to prevent XSS
• Promote format standardization
• Establish a “verify first then grab” mechanism to reduce the DDoS burden brought by the polling mechanism. This also provides an improvement for survival in the paywall ecosystem.

⚠️ Notice

This post is a draft translation from the Chinese version which have not yet been thoroughly proofread.

💡 BlogBlog Club!

The content of this post seems quite match the topic “Am I the only one like this?”, which is the topic of February 2026’s BlogBlog Club, but unfortunately I ended up coming too late! I didn’t even get the inspiration to write it until mid-March.

From a very young age, I’ve always found the sight of dogs baring their teeth terrifying, coupled with my parents’ mentions of dogs biting behaviours (though I’ve probably never been bitten), in addition to myself thinking that I can’t control the behaviour of animals (it’s already quite tough for me to face other humans), even now, the mere sight of a dog triggers a strong physical unease (though this fear only occurs when I see a real dog; looking at photos or watching them on a screen is fine). This often leads to difficulties when I go out.

I don’t know when it started, but more and more people are bringing their dogs into indoor shopping malls¹, medias are reporting that there’s an upward trend in the number of people keeping pets, as well as many organizations are actively promoting pet-friendly facilities. It feels like they’re declaring war on someone like me who is not good at interacting with pets. I truly feel that I’m drifting further and further away from being a “normal person”, someone who can be accepted by the society.

Every time I go out, I have to worry about whether I will encounter dogs on the road, whether I will have to take a long detour or take a more dangerous route (such as a bike path or a place close to the road, which are not designed as a pavement), and my fear response is proportional to the size of the dog. On several occasions, when I was in unfamiliar areas, I tried many different routes but encountered large dogs blocking my way, which eventually led to my emotional breakdown on the street.

Is cynophobia an illness? Does it need to be treated?